On 3/27/10 5:41 PM, Jim Scott wrote:
On Mar 27, 2010, at 5:26 PM, Jonas Ulrich wrote:
Hi, quick question here for a friend - He is wanting to know if it
would be possible to take the hard drive out of his G5 PowerMac
running Tiger, and slip it into an external case, hook the case to
a MacBook Pro, and boot off the system that the G5 was running.
Would that be possible? I realize one is PPC and the other Intel.
In order for an Intel Mac to boot from any disk, external or
internal, it needs to be formatted via Disk Utility using the GUID
Partition Table. The Intel Mac will see the ex-G5 external hard drive
formatted as an Apple Partition Map disk, but will not be able to
boot from it.
That's the first problem. The second problem is that if the MacBook
Pro is an early 2008 or newer model, it will not be able to boot from
OS X 10.4.11 since it shipped with 10.5.x or newer.
And any Intel Mac that does boot Tiger uses a special version that
shipped with the computer.
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